Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton Bon Agornin, patriarch of a well-off family, is on his death bed. His family has gathered around him, including his oldest son Penn, who is a country parson, and Avan, the younger brother who is making his way up in the bureaucracy of the capital city. Also there are […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | Stand-Alone, World Fantasy Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Farthing by Jo Walton At first glance, it seems like Farthing, Book One in Jo Walton’s SMALL CHANGE trilogy, could have been written by Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers or Elizabeth George. At a house party in the home of an aristocratic British family, a guest is found dead, his body staged to throw suspicion on […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Ha’Penny by Jo Walton (May contain spoilers for the previous book, Farthing.) Ha’Penny is the second book in Jo Walton’s dark alternate history series SMALL CHANGE. The “small change” that created this world is the refusal of America to get involved in the war in Europe, in 1941. From that small “counterfactual” sprang a world […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Jo Walton | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Half a Crown by Jo Walton (Warning: may contain spoilers of the two previous books.) In the foreword to Half a Crown, Jo Walton says that she is by nature an optimistic person and that’s why she wrote the SMALL CHANGE series (which she refers to as Still Life with Fascists). Half a Crown, the […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Jo Walton | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Among Others by Jo Walton Kids nowadays have it easy. If you’re into fantasy, there’s a good chance that the books you like have a devoted following and a few dedicated web sites. There may be movie franchises and/or an HBO series about them. You can buy Team Jacob/Team Edward shirts, Harry Potter glasses and […]
Read MoreStefan Raets (RETIRED) and Terry Weyna´s rating: 4.5 | Jo Walton | Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton In 2008, Jo Walton began a regular column over at Tor.com on the books she was reading. Actually, mostly re-reading. She was invited to blog on the site because, as Patrick Nielsen Hayden told her, she was “always saying smart things about books nobody else had […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Just City by Jo Walton When you’re Apollo, son of Zeus, and a nymph prefers to turn herself into a tree rather than have sex with you, you know it’s time to think seriously about the life you’re leading. After asking his sister Athena why the nymph Daphne didn’t want to have sex with […]
Read MoreJoão Eira´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton My jaw remained open whilst I read the last pages of Jo Walton’s The Just City, and for a little while afterwards. Released earlier this year, Walton’s first novel in a new trilogy saw the start of a story whose foundational ideas are so wild, so daring, that only […]
Read MoreJoão Eira´s rating: 4.5 | Jo Walton | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Starlings by Jo Walton I’m honestly not quite sure of how to review Jo Walton’s 2018 collection of short stories, Starlings. As a fiction read, it left me greatly wanting, with many of the stories (there are also poems and one play, but more on those later) feeling undeveloped, slight, and too one-note, so that […]
Read MoreBill Capossere and Skye Walker´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards 1953-2000 by Jo Walton Jo Walton has long been one of the more popular bloggers over at Tor.com thanks to a winning combination of literary insight, genre knowledge, and enthusiasm. A few years ago, she published a collection of her posts […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Jo Walton | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Lent by Jo Walton Jo Walton writes truly thoughtful books, as anyone who has read her THESSALY TRILOGY (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity) knows. She’s also, those fans also know, a big fan of Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence. So it comes as no surprise to find this the setting for her newest novel, […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Jo Walton | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Or What You Will by Jo Walton Or What You Will (2020), by Jo Walton, is an at times charming, at times frustrating work of metafiction that reads, even distanced by the novelist’s artifice, as a warmly personal, almost intimate love letter to Florence, the Renaissance, art, reading, the classics, and creativity. I’m guessing it […]
Read MoreBill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Jo Walton | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Here are a few shorter SFF works that we read this week that we wanted you to know about. Some great finds this week! Blood Grains Speak Through Memories by Jason Sanford (March 2016, free at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, free ebook available on the author’s website) Frere-Jones Roeder is the anchor of her land, charged with its […]
Read More
Our weekly exploration of free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Report” by Donald Barthelme (1967, originally published in the New Yorker, free at Jessamyn.com (reprinted by permission), also collected in Sixty Stories) “Our group is against the […]
Read More
Mythic II edited by Mike Allen Much like its predecessor Mythic, Mythic 2 feels compact and precise. Both the prose and poetry (and everything else in between) are easy to read and have a lyrical tonality. The anthology is even and consistent, with no sudden drops or spikes in the quality. Editor Mike Allen also […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Catherynne M. Valente, Cherie Priest, Jo Walton | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell Twenty-First Century Science Fiction is packed full of excellent science fiction stories. I’ve been reading anthologies lately, partly to improve my own short story writing, and this is the best I’ve found so far. It contains stories by authors such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Catherynne […]
Read MoreMike Reeves-McMillan´s rating: 5 | Brenda Cooper, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, Elizabeth Bear, Genevieve Valentine, James L. Cambias, Jo Walton, John Scalzi, Kage Baker, Karl Schroeder, Liz Williams, Madeline Ashby, Mary Robinette Kowal, Paolo Bacigalupi, Rachel Swirsky, Tobias Buckell, Yoon Ha Lee | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
We’re updating our theme, so things may be a little messy or slow until we’re finished. Thank you for being patient with us!
Recent Discussion